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...handful of investment banks may continue to buy and pass along independent research-either because they know it helps their clients, or because they see it as a marketing tool. By and large, though, the banks never went to great lengths to advertise the availability and value of the research to customers-like, say, Charles Schwab does. That's partly because most customers at firms such as Merrill Lynch deal with intermediaries like brokers. Still, "while the retail investor may not have been accessing that research directly, investment professionals were consuming it and then presenting it to their clients," says...
...dozens of other firms selling research are much smaller, and have come to depend on the nearly $90 million a year the investment banks have been plowing into the system. When that money stops, "you're going to see a lot of these smaller firms either consolidate or dry up and go away," says James Gellert, CEO of the ratings and research outfit Rapid Ratings International, which sells its research through the settlement...
...site?s flash sales, which registered customers are alerted to via e-mail. Its Going, Going, Gone sales - which are essentially the shoppers' version of playing chicken - begin by offering a product at its original retail price and then keep dropping the price as time runs out until either all the stock has been sold or the sale ends...
...reason people search for themselves is that they're curious about what other people see when they search for their name," says Joe Kraus, Google's director of product management. "One problem is they don't have any control over the search results. Either they don't like the search results, or what happens most of the time is, they're not listed on the first page. If your name is Brian Jones and you're not the deceased Rolling Stones guitarist, you don't exist...
...dynamic between the two men but rather in the seemingly arbitrary twists and turns of the plot. The film’s end carries no sign of redemption, little trace of failure, and a wealth of ambiguity. This outcome makes it difficult to view the film as either a commercially successful blockbuster or an intelligent social commentary. “I’ve never loved anything as much as that man loves music,” Lopez says of Ayers, but the movie never actualizes that sentiment...